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Any accusations made are immune from defamation actions which is interesting. what are you doing that case? they have to be accused in public in order for you to be able to sue them. i am interested in that because those are some pretty serious charges. nobody is really talking about that other than the people denying it. >> juan: they cannot sue for defamation? >> greg: it has to be done in public, it has to be a public slander, not court proceedings. >> katie: you're talking about other men. >> greg: the people that were named. >> juan: they say nothing happened. but they can't sue her. >> g...

Maybe didn't think people would notice. they were kind of underprivileged young women, is that also perhaps encouraging that they may get justice, david? >> yes. they have been represented on many different actions. there have been defamation actions that have been filed. there was the action in florida to find the nonprosecution agreement void. they are represented. and they will be heard. this will be a case in the press, no doubt about it. mike: alex, any final thoughts for you? >> yeah, i think the fact that new york is doing this is what we need to watch very very closely. the next few da...

Alerts, as well as that's a legal determination if the judge does indeed make that determination today in that legal determination could be used against cosby in the various civil defamation actions that are pending throughout the country. we know in massachusetts, for example, there are seven plaintiffs that cosby, that have accused cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them. and now they're suing him for defamation. so a determination by the judge today that he's a sexually violent predator could be used in those civil cases. two, as to you point about remorse, that's a really big issue....

Careful what you wish for, because he's said more things that are potentially libellous than has been said against him. watch out there, but it's been settled law since new york times versus sullivan in 1964, that the first amendment protects people in these situations when those people are public officials or public figures. so the likelihood that he's going to change 40 years of juris prudence to make it more like the u.k. system is just laughable. and many of these defamation actions are brought under state law, of which he has no control. so i think it's sort of a threat in the same way th...

Demonizing people who speak out. >> ultimately it will be the people of alabama to decide if he should hold the seat in the senate. what has been revealing is the number of reports out of alabama from local reporters on the ground, to our reporters on the ground, of so many folks in alabama, even some democrats who didn't vote for roy moore but who do not believe this one bit because it comes from the mainstream media, from the "washington post". one moore supporter said this. this is a republican town, man. moore could have killed obama, and we wouldn't care. how do you see it? >> and so, pop...